--On February 6, 2008 1:39:46 PM -0600 "Douglas C. Stephens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What really fixed this problem and allowed me to scale-up the number of > Amavisd child processes was to convert the underlying SpamAssassin to use > a proper SQL database for Bayes and AutoWhitelist storage. This > conversion all but eliminated the write lock contention between Amavisd > child processes, and lead to an order of magnitude drop in message > processing time. Since then I haven't experienced a single backlog. Unfortunately, SA still uses the ancient 1.85 BDB type databases, which are horribly slow and inefficient. There's a bug to get it updated to a modern BDB database, which I suspect would help with this issue. <http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4416> --Quanah -- Quanah Gibson-Mount Principal Software Engineer Zimbra, Inc -------------------- Zimbra :: the leader in open source messaging and collaboration ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
